Computational biology and genomics
Build up an index of files to process, e.g. SAM files. Fork out 16 child processes, each time processing and eliminating one file from the index. As with all my code, use at your own risk. Comments and suggestions always welcome. For more information see Forking in Perl.
Very simple code using Perl to log transform (base 2) a list of numbers. 0 values are converted into 0.5, since you cannot take the logarithm of 0. For this example numbers are stored in the array @n. Using R I know this post is about using Perl to log transform data, but I’ve been…